CVE-2025-14427 PUBLISHED

Shield Security: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches <= 21.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Email MFA Update

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 10.12.2025 Published: 19.02.2026 Updated: 19.02.2026

The Shield Security: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the MfaEmailDisable action in all versions up to, and including, 21.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to disable the global Email 2FA setting for the entire site.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor paultgoodchild
Product Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 21.0.9 (incl.)

Credits

  • Angus Girvan finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE